Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart, Donald Trump, held a telephonic conversation where they discussed the prevailing situation in the Middle East, the Kremlin said this week. During the phone call, Putin put forward several proposals aimed at ending the ongoing war between Iran and the US-Israeli coalition "quickly," it added.
The Kremlin said the call was initiated by Washington. The conversation lasted for nearly an hour, Putin's foreign affairs advisor Yuri Ushakov said, adding that the two leaders had a "specific and useful" exchange of views.
He said the Russian president "voiced a few ideas aimed at a quick political and diplomatic settlement" of the ongoing armed conflict in the Middle East following his conversations with Gulf leaders and Iran’s president, the Associated Press reported.
Trump offered his assessment of the developing situation, Ushakov said, "in the context of the ongoing US-Israeli operation." Iran is a key ally of Russia. Ushakov said that Putin and Trump also discussed the conflict in Ukraine.
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